Convicted trans-Alaska oil pipeline shooter gets another sentence

by The Associated Press

Daniel Lewis, who was convicted of shooting a hole in the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, has drawn another sentence on a related conviction.

A federal judge sentenced Lewis June 20 to the 10-year maximum sentence for illegally having a weapon at the time he shot the pipeline near Livengood north of Fairbanks.

On June 6, Lewis was sentenced to 16 years in state prison for oil pollution and first-degree criminal mischief convictions in state court.

The state and federal sentences will be served concurrently.

Lewis, 39, was convicted in March 2002 in U.S. District Court of being a felon in possession of the hunting rifle used in the pipeline shooting in October 2001.

The shooting spilled more than 285,000 gallons of oil. Lewis told U.S. District Judge John Sedwick he was not guilty.